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![presentation: professionalpeachhunk:
[[This is Isaiah Hineâs high school presentation on white fragility. Youâre not going to get a simpler explanation, in my opinion, so if youâre white you should really read this. Below are Isaiahâs notes on each slide.]]
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What is White Fragility?
Robin DiAngelo is a professor at Westfield State University and author of What Does it Mean to Be White? Developing White Racial Literacy.
Iâm sure youâve all seen these âdefensive movesâ in action before. âI didnât mean anything by itâ âI wasnât trying to be offensiveâ âI have a black friendâ âNot all white peopleâ
People are often more worried about being called a racist than actually doing something racist. In America white people often donât even have to consider race. They often think of themselves as âracelessâ white is conditioned to be the norm and everyone else is considered âracedâ or âcoloredâ. White fragility allows white people to govern when and how race is discussed. White people expect to be educated on racism, and in a nice way.
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Why Is It A Bad Thing?
White people never learn as a result and are allowed to continue saying and doing racist things. White people prefer to hear these things from other white people but because other white people donât know enough about racism, they cycle continues. When people of color do things like the BLACKLIVESMATTER movement, many white peoples responses were âall lives matterâ this is white fragility. Proclaiming that black lives matter does not inherently mean that other lives donât. This statement is made because society continually shows us that black lives donât matter in america and these are the lives that need the affirming. We already know that white lives matter, it doesnât need to be stated. White people are very used to being the center of things and when they arenât it makes them uncomfortable.
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Why Does This Happen?
Most people donât fully grasp the idea of systemic racism and that we live in a racist society that perpetuates racist ideas. We are socialized into white supremacy.](https://pics.onsizzle.com/professionalpeachhunk-this-is-isaiah-hineâs-high-school-presentation-on-white-72508426.png)
![presentation: THE SEX
BINARY
IS A LIE
inferior-mirage:
antifakiddie:
queerlection:
[Image description - Image of the intersex pride flag with the text: THE SEX BINARY IS A LIE. End description.]
If you disagree with this, youâre denying that intersex people exist/have a right to exist, just sayin.
I disagree with this because my intersex disorder (Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia) is not a different sex. My diagnosis is specific to the presentation and symptoms expressed in a female body. Many intersex diagnoses - including Klinefelterâs, Turnerâs, and hypospadias - continue to resemble our birth sex without confusion.
If you disagree with this, youâre denying how variations on human sexual dimorphism cause significant problems to our health and fertility.
Disorders of sex development reveal variation, not deliberate and distinct categories. If you read the archives of intersex advocacy organizations like OII or ISNA, we strongly reject being othered as fake males and females. Your ableist approach to erasing our chromosomal and phenotypic abnormalities to mark us separate but equal is not shared by the intersex community, medical professionals, or intersex activists.Â
Dr. Leonard Sax wrote, âThis type of extreme social constructionism is confusing and is not helpful to clinicians, to their patients, or to their patientsâ families. Diluting the term intersex to include âany deviation from the Platonic ideal of sexual dimorphismâ (Blackless et al., 2000, p. 152), deprives the term of any clinically useful meaning. The available data support the conclusion that human sexuality is a dichotomy, not a continuum. More than 99.98% of humans are either male or female. If the term intersex is to retain any clinical meaning, the use of this term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. The birth of an intersex child, far from being âa fairly common phenomenon,â is actually a rare event, occurring in fewer than 2 out of every 10,000 births.â
The Intersex Society of North America rejected raising intersex babies as a third sex with this statement: âSorry, gender warriors⊠We believe there are two problems with trying to raise kids in a âthird gender.â First, how would we decide who would count in the âthird genderâ? How would we decide where to cut off the category of male and begin the category of intersex, or, on the other side of the spectrum, where to cut off the category of intersex to begin the category of female? Second, and much more importantly, we are trying to make the world a safe place for intersexed kids, and we donât think labeling them with a gender category that in essence doesnât exist would help them.â
Your flag is a lie.
âHaving two arms is a lie and if you disagree with this youâre saying that people with birth defects that give them additional limbs donât have a right to exist!â What the fuck kind of logic is that? Intersex is by definition a defect that exists outside of the norm. Gender may be more up for debate but sex is definitely a binary.ïżŒ](https://pics.onsizzle.com/the-sex-binary-is-a-lie-inferior-mirage-antifakiddie-queerlection-image-65815980.png)
